Kilkenny People - Newspaper Article 2022
Kilkenny woman Sheila Ryan founded Kilimanjaro Direct over 13 years ago after being deeply moved by the plight of children living in the area and their lack of access to decent education.
A teacher for 41 years at the Presentation Secondary School in Kilkenny, Sheila knows first hand the transformational impact education has on the lives of young people.
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Radio Interview
April 2019
Damien Ryan & Wyane Clowry recently returned back from Kilimanjaro where they are heading up a programme to build housing and a School for a community in need there. Sheila Ryan, Damien's mother and a teacher herself set up the charity in 2005 when she saw the poverty there and has been working tirelessly since. Trevor Gypp talked to them about their latest trip and plans for the future.
April 2019
KCLR FM
Video Documentary (from 2009)
On the 20th October 2009, twenty-five volunteers headed off to Kilimanjaro, to work on building a school for poor children in the area. Despite the recession at the time, these volunteers funded their own flights and would spend their free time fundraising to buy building materials for the school.
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Kilimanjaro Direct (KD) is a charity that has built houses and a primary school in the foothills of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Our school is run on donations alone. KD provides food and education for almost 300 impoverished children. The ethos of the charity is that 100% of ALL donations go directly to the running of the school and not 1 cent is taken for expenses or administration fees. Everybody involved in the charity pays their own expenses and raise much needed funds to keep the school going purely out of the goodness of their hearts. Please join us on our journey to provide children with the basic human rights of good food and education by becoming a patron of our school.
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